5:00 Indeed. Plea bargains are the usual way the justice system brutalizes
people (mostly men of course). One of my best friend’s (no sex for 2 years)
wife became enraged when he cheated on her. Then she called the cops and
said he molested their daughter. The cops hauled him off to jail and they
dumped charge after charge on him until he’d probably spend 20 years in
prison. His wife called 4 hours later saying she had filed a false
accusation because she was angry. But since they had so many charges dumped
on him, he was in jail for 3 months before they offered him a plea bargain
where he didn’t dispute the charge and they let him go but not without that
sex offender stamp that they thumped onto his forehead, and he had to agree
to never see his daughter again. It basically destroyed his life. When my
D&D group and I visited him in jail a couple times, man I’ve never seen
anyone who was so deeply sad almost shattered emotionally.
That plus all the divorces I saw among my fellow mechanics caused me to
drop into a period of agonized indecision (should I marry? is it worth that
terrible awful risk?) that lasted 4 months. During that time I asked older
mechanics, family, friends about their marriages and their divorces and
asked them if it was worth it. At the end of that 4 months I finally had
enough information to go on, and in the spring of 1997 I decided that I
just couldn’t do it. I chose not to marry.
It’s not all bad though. I just hung out with my fellow geeks, went
shooting with my mechanic friends, paid off my first home (a condo) in 11
years (now it’s a mortgage free rental that provides a 380 a month (after
everything) profit). Got an awesome house on a half acre with a nice garage
for all my mad scientist projects, massive room for my gardens and
permaculture projects, fruit trees and so on. Moved my old man into one of
my spare rooms since he’s too old to take care of his house and I’m having
a pretty decent time during this (my late middle age years). Income about
4580 a month and about 2300 of that is surplus. I tend to buy about 900 to
1000 a month in bitcoin.
I would have loved to have a family and I could have supported one on my
wages alone but the risks (about 50% chance) of divorce and all the
heartaches were just too great. So whoever I was supposed to marry, well
she just had to find her way through her life without me.
This whole divorce thing plus the way a single phone call from my wife
could have me jailed (!) well, it causes a huge chilling effect on marriage
and it’s causing a huge demographic change in all the western nations. It’s
sad but what did they expect? Of course there was going to be a reaction.
The marriage rate is continuing to collapse and in Japan, where things are
even worse for men, 60% of men are what they call soushoku danshi, or
“herbivore men”. They don’t marry, they won’t date, they don’t even hookup.
They’re totally off the market.
Oops! I’m ranting.﻿

We hear answers, but really just comment and editorial, from the panel that
address the engagement of individuals and organizations that promote and
support bitcoin, the engagement of those entities with “politics” and
politicians from only the perspective on “incumbency”, politicians that are
already in office. Generally, a very broad brush is used to literally tar
and feather those in the political ecosystem, at any level, when an attempt
is made to engage politically, but then Perianne appears to be immune from
this type of attack, indeed, she appears to be supported by many, even the
devout “anarchists” that decry foul, and terrorism with respect to
political engagement, and Perianne is purely a lobbyist who wishes to open
a political action committee, but she seems to be completely immune from
criticism, while others engaging politically are just shit on, gleefully.

And then we hear a defeatist attitude that any engagement, at any level
will fail. Randall Lord is a bitcoin miner, he is just as much a bitcoin
expert as myself, or any one of you on this panel, and he has a lot of
coin, a lot more than most of you … and he is funding his campaign for US
House of Representatives using his bitcoin, and only accepting donations to
his campaign in bitcoin. And this is a cognitive dissonance so extreme and
so powerful I don’t think you people have either the experience, or the
mental horsepower to deal with this at any level at all, save juvenile name
calling. Shame.

To be fair, a person like Randall Lord who captured 25% of the vote in the
last congressional election cycle, a VIABLE candidate, against the same
incumbent that is now running for office, to be fair, the perspective a
professional bitcoin miner who is running for office might be included in
your shows, ONCE, one single time, and you are hereby challenged to do so,
and you KNOW I can make that happen for you … so you can than tar and
feather Randall live, on your broadcast, so you can attack and destroy your
fellow bitcoiner?

When you tar and feather Randall with your broad political brush, you will
be attacking the logical individual to engage politically most effectively
and represent the interests of bitcoin in the halls of government, unless
of course you have already swallowed … defeat.

So until you have a political candidate running for office that can prove
he has a level of expertise concerning bitcoin that meets or exceeds all of
your expertise on your panels, I think your perspectives on bitcoin and
politics is nothing short of grotesquely ignorant. You and your panels hold
yourselves up to be leading thought leaders and experts in the bitcoin
ecosystem, and then want to pretend you understand politics at any level,
and then want to encourage others to wallow in ignorance with you, when
political candidates running for office are accepting bitcoin donations and
some of them know more about bitcoin … THAN YOU. And that is a cognitive
dissonance that really, really seems to scare the shit out of you, as you
refuse to interview political candidates, to invite them to your “tree
house”.

If Patrick Byrne announced his candidacy for public office, then you would
support him, he would be your political hero, and he’s a Libertarian, and
there is a Libertarian Party in this nation, and that party supports
bitcoin, but all you and your panel members do is malign them, insult them,
make them into villains because YOU have a political agenda, you want
control over politics through some type of change, you want to do the
business of politics differently, but you have no expertise in politics on
your panels, all you have is name calling and a defeatist attitude that
Randall cannot afford to entertain because he going to win his election, go
to Washington and refuse to meet with Perianne and her PAC and lobbyists
JUST LIKE DR. RON PAUL, and perianne sees that as threatening to her
potential PAC startup desires. If the politicians that support bitcoin
refuse to engage with political action committees and lobbyists, then why
would Periannce or any of you want to engage with those types of
bitcoiners, what would you possible have to gain?

And folks, this is “cognitive dissonance 101”, welcome to class.

When Randall is seated as a member of the US House of Representatives and
does this by funding his campaign with his OWN bitcoin, will you then tar
and feather him and call him some “bitcoin terrorist politician”, really,
let’s quit being so one sided and realize that there are those in the
bitcoin ecosystem that not only have expertise in bitcoin, but have a level
of expertise in the political ecosystem which far, far exceeds anybody on
your panels.

People will use bitcoin how they wish, and people includes those that vote
in elections, and those that run for office, you cannot stop that, and to
think that in some way the politicians will not use bitcoin, if it is money
… is right on the edge of insanity …﻿

1:04:00 going to talk in a parlement is one thing, forming a lobby group
and a PAC is another. If they are going to regulate it how they want anyway
then lets stop spending energy, throwing money, eating chease and wine with
them.﻿

The primary objectives of the federal government when producing guilty
verdicts for criminals they prosecute is the creation of criminal legal
precedence. The conviction of Shrem on any charge is to the greatest
advantage for the government as it allows them to use procedural
documentation of the conviction in the next criminal trial that revolves
around the same issues. So the federal government can produce a conviction
and then have that function as the application of criminal law, without
ever having passed any law.﻿

Not only is the stock market broken, but so is international money
remittance. I also agree about having fully inclusive governance systems
for anonymous, secure, global governance on the block chain as being a
necessity in this day in age. Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof’s BitNation is a
good example of government “2.0” that people ought to pay attention to.﻿

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At 1:26:00 the debt backed crypto currency seems problematic to me. Assets
that back the coin can be seized just like the gold of the liberty dollar
was seized. So the coin is vulnerable. Of course I’m just a diesel mechanic
so maybe there is more info that I haven’t considered.﻿

MK, you are one of the few true journalists in our community. You have
journalistic integrity and actual writing skills. We need you more than
ever at this period of time of non-objective hype stories, and badly
researched articles.﻿

There needs to be a public Bitcoin giveaway. Maybe a pool could be created
by donors and used to give away lets say $5 increments of Bitcoin to people
with the app on their phone. People that received it could be prevented on
returning to the fountain. They could be given info on where to spend it,
e.g. Overstock, Dell. Just a thought to promote Bitcoin.﻿